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Subject: Pretty Powerful last line


Author:
GeorgeTheCar
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Date Posted: 09:10:18 07/01/09 Wed
The last line in Chapter 11 is pretty powerful stuff, indicating a depth of feeling and commitment.

Interesting omission is Crystal

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Subject: NY Transportation Museum


Author:
Kilobytemangler
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Date Posted: 19:04:33 06/21/09 Sun
http://www.nymtmuseum.org/

has some wonderful exhibits more related to passenger RR service and streetcars, but still of interest to rail fans.
Open only on Sundays - 11 to 5.

I'm sure that there are many of these around the country.

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Subject: Blue Beauty starts posting


Author:
Wes
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Date Posted: 21:51:32 06/07/09 Sun
Well all right. I just uploaded the first chapter of Blue Beauty.

There always seem to be some bugs when I start a new book, and I found a few with this one. I think I have the worst of them stomped on, but if you come across anything, be sure and let me know.

As I've been indicating, Myleigh is probably my favorite character of all the people I've invented for this series, although it's a close call, as there are some other memorable ones coming up. As the people that are working on the Wiki are discovering, there are hundreds of these characters, many of which are just names, but sometimes a relative background character comes to life. In the book I'm currently working on, for example, one of the main characters is a guy that I haven't used since Snowplow Extra.

I'm still punching away at the writing, although my completed book list is still pretty far ahead of posting. I've explained before that it takes 600 to 700 thousand words a year to service the website, and I'm trying to stay at least a couple years ahead so there will be plenty of time for revision before I send something off to the editors. So far I'm not getting that much done annually, but I'm over 300,000 for the year so far so I have hopes of making my goal this year. I was looking over my notes this morning, and came to the conclusion that I currently have 11 projects on the drawing board, ranging from about half completed to mostly vague ideas. Those ought to keep me going for a while, at least if all of them get written.

I want to thank Wexwiz and someone who posts on the forum but has asked not to be pointed out for their help in editing my work. I think I kick out some pretty clean copy, but I had only a handful of corrections sent to me for Following the Storm, where in some of my earliest books I sometimes got more than that for each chapter. Considering that I've usually been over a story a number of times before it even gets sent to the editors, it shows just how much help they have been.

I will admit to the fact that I shoved Myleigh to the side in the last part of Dawnwalker, mostly because I had to get her out of the way to finish the story, but Myleigh is not the kind of person that will stand for being shoved to the side, so she clawed her way back to the front of my attention. In my own mind, most of the way through Dawnwalker there were some things that didn't quite make sense about Myleigh to me, but I think I managed to settle at least some of those things in my own mind in this story.

Anyway, I hope you like Blue Beauty. It's mostly a fun book, although there are a few dramatic spots here and there. For those of you that don't want to wait out the series, Blue Beauty is now available for download, and in hardcopy. See the Store page on the website for details.

Any way you do it, have fun! Now, I'm going to knock off the babble and head back to the basement to work on the next book.

-- Wes

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Subject: Blue Beauty - Chap 10


Author:
Johnson
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Date Posted: 19:08:36 06/29/09 Mon
Even though most of this forum has been used for taking tangents from your stories, I wanted to take the opportunity to make this comment a bit more public.

This chapter gave me absolute anticipatory chills as it became clear that you were going to bring so many of your important characters all together at B&G's. The past story lines have been enjoyable on their own but having them all come together like this is absolutely delightful.

The pacing was no more rushed than desired and was just slow enough to have it all be realistic and to make clear what was happening. You knew what you were doing but took the time to make it work properly for the reader. Thank you for not letting your desire to get it done overcome your need to do it right. I am truly looking forward to the upcoming chapters.

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Subject: How


Author:
Tucson
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Date Posted: 13:02:53 06/27/09 Sat
Looks like I should use the "post a new message" at the top of page to get what I need.

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Subject: How?


Author:
Tucson
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Date Posted: 02:14:32 06/27/09 Sat
Please explain the procedure to reply to a message on the forum. I always end up with my reply stuck in the middle of some one elses message. I also have been having a problem getting to the forums for several days.

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Subject: How


Author:
Tucson
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Date Posted: 12:57:42 06/27/09 Sat
post a new mesage top of page

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Subject: Forum trouble


Author:
Wes
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Date Posted: 17:40:05 06/25/09 Thu
I don't know about anyone else but I've had a lot of trouble accessing the forum the last few days. There's nothing about trouble in the voy.com news, but that means nothing. I've had pretty good success with these people for a long longer than there has been spearfishlaketales.com, so I'm reluctant to dump them just yet. Besides, the obvious alternative is the big blue G and I'm starting to get concerned with how all pervasive they are. But maybe that's just me, I don't know.

In any case, I will keep an eye on the situation and will go to an altenative if need be. But I'm hoping the current situation will shake itself out.

-- Wes

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Subject: Myleigh's Music and Celtic Harp singers


Author:
David Manders
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Date Posted: 16:09:04 06/17/09 Wed
Is there a website with the sort of music that Myleigh plays on the harp? I cannot really visualise (or is that 'auralise'?) the music but would like to know more.
I take it that most of the 'Dawnwalker' related songs are fictional, but which ones are real and can be found?

BTW I am in England and know little about the various varieties of Country/Folk that exist, especially those restricted to localised areas or subjects e.g. surfing.

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Subject: What are Nicole and Randy thinkng?


Author:
GeorgeTheCar
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Date Posted: 20:11:59 06/23/09 Tue
Clearly something is afoot!

What new avenue are they looking to open with Myleigh to help her overcome her fears?

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Subject: Another one done


Author:
Wes
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Date Posted: 01:24:46 06/19/09 Fri
Just finished my latest project in the last half hour. Good to have this one done, I'd been feeling blocked again until this one came to me all of a sudden. Good story, although it's a long way from posting and, as is usual with my first drafts, needs a lot of work. But, there will be time to do it.

110k words in 20 days, not my best speed by any means, but not my worst. Sometimes I need projects like this just to prove to myself that I still can.

-- Wes

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Subject: Absent Friend


Author:
Kirby Lambert
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Date Posted: 13:50:33 06/18/09 Thu
Wes:

I am re-reading Absent Friend for the umpteenth time. As I navigate my way through Chapter 7 I am reminded that I need to thank you for the most gut wrenchingly humorous piece of writing I think that I have ever read. The very first time that I read this chapter my wife thought that I was going to have a heart attack because I was laughing so hard that I was gasping for breath.

Even now knowing exactly what I will encounter in the story, I find myself again laughing so hard and so long that I have trouble breathing.

The pictures painted in my mind by your prose are priceless.

I hope that no one ever discovers what the secret ingredient was. If they do the world would no longer be safe!

Thanks
Kirby

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Subject: Typo in CH 5


Author:
Philip Roberts
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Date Posted: 23:15:55 06/16/09 Tue
Wes,

I noticed at typo in Blue Beauty Ch 5

"Jennifer had been fidgety for months; although the pregnancy was going as well or even better than expected, it was new and unexplored territoru for her, too."

I've really enjoyed all your stories.

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Subject: Finding the lost


Author:
Wes
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Date Posted: 11:15:27 06/17/09 Wed
I just wrote this for my column for next week at the paper where I work and thought I'd share it with you.

-- Wes

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I happened to stop by one of our local stores the other days, actually with the intent of doing a little business. The store owner, who I don't think I need to identify here, is one of those guys I can get talking to and the next thing you know twenty minutes have gone by. "So, how are you doing today?" I asked.

"I'm a little upset," he said. "I can't find my coffee cup."

"That's something to be upset about," I agreed. "You gotta have that eyeopener to keep you going on a slow morning."

"I know it's around here somewhere," he said. "The heck of it is that I know I'll find it back in one of the displays in a month or two. And then, it'd be all moldy and gross and yucky."

"You'd think it would be easy to see in a display," I commented. "I used to have an orange and black coffee cup back in the day, before the sun faded it too much. If you walked away from that you didn't have much trouble finding it."

"Yeah, I know," he shook his head, "But this one is black, it doesn't stick out like that. The heck of it is that I lose it like that every few days."

"You know what you need?" I told him. "One of those child locater things you see advertised on TV sometimes."

"What good would that do?"

"Real simple," I told him. "You just take the child end of that rig and glue it to your coffee cup. That way when you walk away from it and can't find it, you just take the remote, push the button, and beeeeep! There you go."

"Yeah, well maybe," he said thoughtfully. "But then you run into the problem of losing the handheld thingy."

"Oh, that's an easy one," I told him. "While you have the glue out, take a piece of string, glue one end of it to the handheld, and the other end to your cash register or something."

"That'd work," he nodded. "But what if someone stole the cash register?"

"Easy. Turn the whole works into your insurance company. That way you get a new coffee cup out of it, too. But next time, get an orange one."

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Subject: Blue beauty 4


Author:
Andrew
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Date Posted: 11:30:58 06/15/09 Mon
There is something weird towards the end of chapter 4, the discussion jumps from taking over the record company to Myleigh.

"That'd do it," she grinned. "But we don't want to work as hard as it would take to run it ourselves. We'd just have to hire some joker like him to do all the work, so there we are back at square one."


"Figured that," Blake laughed. "But I would enjoy firing him, though."


"Oh, me too," Jennifer said brightly. "But, we're going to get a touch of how it feels from his side of the desk, anyway. At least we can do it honestly."

Something appears to be missing here


"If she goes for it," Blake shrugged.


"Oh, I think she'll go for it," Jennifer smiled. "Under the circumstances, it's nothing but a good deal for her, and frankly, we owe it to her."


"What makes you think she'll go for it? She does look at the world a little differently than anyone else."



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Subject: Wes Boyd's Bibliography


Author:
Kirby Lambert
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Date Posted: 02:18:38 06/11/09 Thu
A bibliography of Wes Boyd's books has been added to the wiki.

http://www.spearfishlaketaleswiki.com/index.php?title=Wes_Boyd%27s_Bibliography

This page has been constructed with over site and approval of Wes so it is as official as anything to date.

In order to keep spoilers to a minimum some parts of the page will remain vague until it is appropriate for them to be updated.

kirby

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Subject: Solid Body Electric Harp - Blue Beauty


Author:
TJ
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Date Posted: 12:47:21 06/13/09 Sat
Hey guys.

Maybe this had been dealt with before. I decided to google the celtic harp and came up with some interesting information that might affect the story. Although I realize that this far into the writing it might not be practical and we'll just run with what is written.

Blue Beauty is described by Myleigh as a "Solid Body Electric Harp" All of the descriptions of solid body electric harps I found describe them similar a solid body electric guitar. That is that w/o powered amplification they make very little sound on their own. This seems very counter to all of the descriptions of the dorm room and living room performances that Myleigh and Randy did throughout Dawnwalker.

I think what Wes wanted was a an electro-acoustic harp, which sounds like a normal harp, but comes with the amp pickup like mahy acoustic guitars allow. Sorry to bring this up, but maybe I am reading things wrong

TJ

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Subject: Blue Beauty - thru Chap 3


Author:
Johnson
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Date Posted: 23:15:47 06/11/09 Thu
Wes, I must admit that I was expecting a much less interesting story beginning than you've delivered in Blue Beauty. This is not because I question your skill as an author; rather, despite your previous comments to the contrary, I had not been so captivated by Myleigh's character in the two previous novels.

Boy, was I wrong! The story has started off with a BANG. Thanks for the surprise, though that was probably not your primary intent.

I do question how rapidly Myleigh came to confide very personal things with Trey. He had evidently just been one of the rather anonymous students in her class until he helped get her set up on stage. It wasn't even until they had been talking for a bit that she found out he wasn't just a few years out of high school. For someone who had made a habit of being rather intense about her privacy, she certainly opened up to him pretty quickly. It seems there should have been some, evidently missing, scene that would have caused her to believe he would be an appropriate person with whom to share some of her private thoughts.

Also, I kept expecting Myleigh to make some simple comment regarding Trey's listening skills. From one very brief mention of her name early on, he remembered Crystal's name later in the conversation. With all the completely new information being shared, most people probably wouldn't have recalled the name. Did Myleigh have some reason to take for granted Trey's attention to detail?

In any case, I'm really looking forward to the rest of this novel. Thanks!

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Subject: Chap 2 and fantastic


Author:
Tucson
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Date Posted: 22:06:14 06/09/09 Tue
Oh waiting for each new chapter is just hell. You make the wait so worth while and then I reach the end of the chapter and know I will go back to waiting.
Thanks

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Subject: Love the story, hate they Cyan blue


Author:
SweetOneVT
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Date Posted: 09:25:13 06/11/09 Thu
I'm enjoying Blue Beauty and can't wait for MWF updates. It gives me something to eagerly anticipate.

I like your site design and was glad to see some color sense in the design. However, the Cyan Blue is horrendous. It doesn't follow the scheme at all and clashes with the beauty of the page. How bout color code "003333" instead? Or 333399 or 333366...Please almost anything but 00FFFF. My eyes are begging.

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Subject: Blue Beauty & Myleigh


Author:
Hal
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Date Posted: 23:34:18 06/08/09 Mon
Wes, Blue Beauty seems off to a great start - I like the first chapter. On the other hand I have let to _not_ like any of your chapters, and no faint praise intended, lol. So, after just mushing it around for several novels, with Myleigh now squarely in the focus, just how is "Myleigh" pronounced? My-Lee, My-Lay?? Inquiring minds and all, you know.

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Subject: Jenny Easton Concert


Author:
Ed Greenberg
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Date Posted: 19:23:04 06/03/09 Wed
Looking over the set of songs "played" at the Jenny Easton concert, I found four interesting songs. Everybody has heard House of the Rising Sun and other standards, but I wanted to hear the ones with which I wasn't familiar.

I found these on You Tube:

Foggy mountain breakdown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw

orange blossom special
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f_QySKfsgI

pipeline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09C8clJaXo

rocky top
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n9prNixjbg

Since the concert we all wish we had attended has existed only two inches behind Wes's eyes, this will have to do.



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Subject: Digital TV 2


Author:
Amdy Haworth
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Date Posted: 14:24:10 06/08/09 Mon
Just seen in the news that Friday is the delayed switch over date for you on that side of the pond.
And as Wes had a RANT on the subject a few months ago, Archives page 1, was wondering whether Wes and everybody else have got there problems sorted.

Andy

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Subject: Epilogue


Author:
Greg B.
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Date Posted: 14:17:28 06/05/09 Fri
What a nice way to end Rocinante. Thanks for including it, Wes.

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Subject: Next story


Author:
Tucson
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Date Posted: 23:05:06 06/04/09 Thu
When will the next story begin?

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Subject: Facing the Storm


Author:
Boyd
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Date Posted: 23:42:12 06/02/09 Tue
Wes,

The last chapter was most interesting. It mirrored the struggle the main characters went through during the book. Though the team might be called The Magnificent Seven, you could call the four couples The Magnificent Eight.
Thanks for your story.

Boyd

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Subject: Railroad Information


Author:
Kirby Lambert
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Date Posted: 10:18:41 05/30/09 Sat
In the Spearfishlake universe Railroads and Railroading play a large role. It is easy for the terminology and equipment references in the stories to be confusing. To help with that 2 new pages have been added to the wiki.

The first page," http://www.spearfishlaketaleswiki.com/index.php?title=Railroad_Terms_and_Equipment", expands upon the page that Wes included with Snowplow Extra.

The second page, "http://www.spearfishlaketaleswiki.com/index.php?title=SLT_Rail_Power", deals more directly with the motive power (locomotives) used in the stories. It include links to pictures and videos as well as references to where in stories the equipment appears.

You can copy and paste the links or navigate directly on the wiki from books that contain railroading in the stories.

The second page may contain spoilers if you haven't read Snowplow Extra.

I hope this adds to your enjoyment of Wes's stories.

Kirby

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Subject: C&SL motive power


Author:
Kirby Lambert
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Date Posted: 16:02:41 05/17/09 Sun
Wes I have a question about the various engines that the C&SL uses. You state that the SD38's are twice as powerful as the GP9's. Was this done for the stories sake or were you aiming for accuracy? According to the reference material that I have access to the GP7's were rated at 1,500HP, the GP9's were rated at 1,750HP and the SD38's and SD38-2's were rated at 2,000HP. The SD40 series and the SD45 series were both built in the same late 1960 early 1970 time frame and were rated 3,000HP and 3,600HP respectively. You are so accurate with other real world facts I just wanted to ask about this one.

Thanks for putting up with our fan nit-picking.

Kirby

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Subject: Posted chap 36 twicw


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tucson
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Date Posted: 21:27:45 05/24/09 Sun
You posted chap 36 twice

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Subject: Songs For "Saturday Night With Jenny Easton".


Author:
Zoltantheduck
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Date Posted: 06:11:00 05/21/09 Thu
After Blake bought up in chapter 33 that they were looking for songs for Jenny's TV Special, it seems to me that we should be able to help Wes with those songs (unless of course that book has already been written).
Bearing in mind that Blake was after some kick-ass numbers that rights should be available for at a reasonable cost, here are some suggestions, hopefully others can add to the list or come up with something better.
Hot Rod Lincoln - The live Commander Cody version.
Foggy Mountain Breakdown - has already been mentioned, but who do we have to play banjo, don't think the harp will quite substitute, as an alternative, maybe Les Paul & Mary Ford's Chickenreel.
Promised Land - Chuck Berry.
Quote Goodbye Quote - Carolyne Mas.
You need at least one slow number, maybe something a bit different, I Can Never Go Home Anymore - The Shangri Las or Hymn To Her - The Pretenders.
We know that Jenny, Blake and Myleigh do Pipeline but Stevie-Ray & Dick Dale have already redone that so maybe Bombora by The Atlantics to keep people guessing.

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Subject: Brandy Wine


Author:
Jeff
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Date Posted: 00:33:50 05/20/09 Wed
Ok, I didn't associate Brandy's name with her new last name until this chapter. Brandy Wine? Groan.

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Subject: Brandy teaching


Author:
PlainBill
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Date Posted: 07:16:28 05/20/09 Wed
Brandy as coach and teaching. I'm not sure who I feel sorrier for. Phil will discover his wife has become obsessed with TWO new activities. Every kid who resents being coached by a 'girl' will find themselves going one on one on the court and getting their butt whipped. And the students who want to slack off in class will probably be afraid NOT to study.

I visualize something like Goldie Hawn in 'Wildcats'.

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Subject: Maps - Assistance


Author:
Andy Haworth
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Date Posted: 03:17:15 05/24/09 Sun
As you may have noticed the Spearfish Lake map was revised lately. This was because in Facing the Storm Wes informed us that the Lake is 15 * 7.5 miles. This made the town and The Point too large.
Correcting this means that the C&SL Map, which I had used as the primary source for scales, is now a bit out of shape.

I have spoken with Wes, by e-mail, and I think he has agreed that the rail distance from Spearfish Lake to Warsaw is to be approx 43 miles. This means the distance of 33 miles in Snowplow Extra has to be wrong.
My logic for it being wrong is, rail distance on Spearfish Lake map is ~7 miles North plus ~15 miles East. As Hoselton is 10 miles West of Warsaw, it should be right on the edge of the Spearfish Lake map. (7 + 15 + 10 = 32). If you read Runner's Moon you will find the description of Josh's run in the Warsaw run includes several different types of terrain between CR919 and Hoselton, these will not fit if the distance is 33 miles.

So if when you are reading Wes's wonderful books if you find any useful map info, such as distance, direction etc. could you please jot them down and post them along with details of book/chap.

Thanks, in advance,

Andy

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Subject: 404 Error


Author:
SRdV
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Date Posted: 02:32:58 05/20/09 Wed
Wes, I was reading Busted Axle Road. When I clicked the "Main" link it showed a 404 Not Found error. Something about the main page not being at index.html.

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Subject: Wiki frustration


Author:
Hal
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Date Posted: 21:03:39 05/13/09 Wed
OK, I went to the Wiki page[I'm logged in]:
http://spearfishlaketaleswiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page#Instructions_for_New_Users

Being a good kid, I go to the SPLTstyle like it says I should.
http://spearfishlaketaleswiki.com/index.php?title=SPLTstyle

That says I should go to Shared Documents from Users:
http://spearfishlaketaleswiki.com/index.php?title=Shared_Documents_from_Users

It appears that I should download and study "How To Create a Character Page":

To download the file in Windows use "right click" "Save Target as ". I don't have that option with up-to-the-minute updated XP. I can "save link as" or copy link location. If I click on "How To Create a Character Page" to read it, I get " Login Required

For your protection, this page can only be accessed through the Hosting Control Panel."

Near as I can tell, I AM logged in - it says so in upper right corner: "Hal (Talk)
Log out | Preferences | Help "

So now what? {unclench jaw and go read something....}

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Subject: FtS 33


Author:
Vlad
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Date Posted: 09:54:33 05/15/09 Fri

Jennifer turned to Blake. "That's about what Mom told me," she said. "I guess that's our deadline if we want to get in Saturday Night with Jenny Easton this fall."


"It's going to be tight," he agreed. "There are a couple things we can do to speed it up, though. It isn't going to be that expensive to shoot, and it'll actually be easier to sell if it's in the can."


She nodded. "If it's in the can, and Jenny can't do retakes, we're not going to get that much whining about wanting this changed or that changed," she said.


"Uh, I hate to be a buttinski," Phil interjected, "But what are you two talking about?"



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Subject: Artwork needed


Author:
Wes
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Date Posted: 13:58:52 02/16/09 Mon
Farther down the page there's a discussion about a map of the Spearfish Lake region. There's a rough sketch map in the "Snowplow Extra" archive, but frankly it's a crappy map. Longtime fan Hal has made the suggestion that if someone with artistic skills or a good eye with a plotter would like to make a better appearing map, I could pay in a free download or two.

That strikes me as a pretty good idea and I'll go one better: if someone would like to take a swing at it and it turns out better than the one I did with a ball point pen so that I can use it on the web page, I'll burp up a free dead tree copy of "Snowplow Extra" and another book of your choice.

And while we're at it: in another few posts, we'll be seeing Crystal in a pretty distinctive T-shirt: "She had on a white T-shirt with a cartoon of a fat little guy on a surfboard wearing red checked hunting clothes, against a background of the outline of Lake Superior. The T-shirt was lettered, 'Northern Michigan Surfing . . . Superior Waves.'"

I'm thinking this would make a nice bit of merchandise for my website. I have no idea of how many I would sell, but probably not many. A local shop says that he can do this as a transfer without too much difficulty, but I'd have to supply the artwork. I'd also like to have "spearfishlaketales.com" under the "Superior Waves." Since this would be a transfer the number of colors is not an issue. I figure this ought to be worth a couple T-shirts and/or a dead tree book or two.

I've already asked the guy that did the artwork for the donation box, but his time issues preclude doing further commissions.

Anybody like to take a swing at either one of them? Let me know, so we can discuss the issues in a little more detail.

-- Wes

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Subject: Wiki Administrivia


Author:
Kirby Lambert
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Date Posted: 15:10:01 05/14/09 Thu
In order to free the forum up for the purpose Wes created it (discussing his books) we have created a talk page on the wiki. If you go to the bottom of the style page there is a link that you can click to get to the talk page. If you enter a question or a comment there anyone who has set the page to watch mode (a check box at the bottom of the editing window) will be notified that an entry has been made and we can jump in and add comments.

Let's see how this works.

The Editors

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Subject: New help files


Author:
Kirby Lambert
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Date Posted: 15:00:28 05/14/09 Thu
I have posted a couple of help files on the Shared Documents Page. They are files that I use to help make data entry and editing easier. Try them and if they help great.

Kirby

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Subject: Wiki Questions


Author:
Steve
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Date Posted: 15:08:01 05/13/09 Wed
Thanks for all the work in setting up the Wiki. I think it will be useful.

I created user ID and logged in. When I try to access the new timeline pages, and also the "How to Create a Character Page" PDF, I get an error messasge that says "Login Required. For your protection, this page can only be accessed through the Hosting Control Panel." How can I get to these pages?

How will different names for the same person be handled? For example, Judith Niven, Judy Niven, Judith Sorensen, and Judy Sorensen should all get to the same place.

I noticed in a couple of places warnings against including copyrighted material. Do we have Wes's permission to include brief quotes from the stories? One thing that comes to mind is that there are good descriptions of a couple of people (Lisa DeLine, Hjamler) from the Reporter's Handbook in Andromeda Chained that might be useful to include in the character pages.

I have noticed several errors in names of books and people. Just to get my feet wet, I fixed one of them (Andy Bairnsfether's last name was misspelled). Other repeated errors are Axle misspelled as Axel, and Snowplow Extra misnamed as Snowplow Express. I will go in and fix these if nobody beats me to it. I found a good way to check stuff like this, which I even used in composing this messasge -- I wanted to verify the spelling of Judy's last name. Good thing I did, I though it was Nivens instead of Niven, and wanted to see if it was Sorenson or Sorensen. Anyhow, I found out that in Google (and I think Yahoo, and maybe other search engines), you can put "site:spearfishlaketales.com" after the search term(s), and it will show results from that site only, which eliminates a lot of noise in the search results.

Seems like a had a couple other questions as well, but can't remember them off the top of my head, so I'll quit here for now.

--
Steve

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Subject: WIKI Notice!!!!!!!


Author:
Kirby Lambert
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Date Posted: 09:59:43 05/12/09 Tue
I have had to delete and re-create the following pages because users did not follow the wiki convention for naming character pages..

Randy Clark
Ryan Clark
Donna Clark
Linda Clark
brent
Wayne clark

The convention is to create the page "Last Name then Comma then First Name" always using caps were indicated.

In this case it was easy to move what little content there was to the corrected page.

In the future if this gets out of hand and time is short pages that do not comply with the conventions may just be deleted without a replacement page being created. So please be careful to follow the conventions.

The conventions were developed so that the site would be more than just a jumble of content. We have tried to keep the rules/conventions to as few as necessary so that there will be as much room as possible for creativity. So please follow what rules/conventions there are.

Thank You
Kirby

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Subject: Wiki Update


Author:
Kirby Lambert
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Date Posted: 11:20:45 05/13/09 Wed
Our wiki guru Mike has added some new graphics and new navigation links to the site. He will continue to tweak things now that he is back at home.

User gEMUSER from down under has submitted a time line in 3 different versions. They are available for down load on the Time Lines page.

Mike and I will continue to work on the bugs as they appear so things should only improve.

Wes thanks for letting us do this and to you the fans thanks for your support.

Kirby

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Subject: Wiki News


Author:
Kirby Lambert
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Date Posted: 19:18:57 05/12/09 Tue
By the time this evening that Wes posts the next chapter of Facing The Storm.the wiki will have been open for about 48 hours.

In that time more than 40 Character Pages have been started and at least 6 Location Pages have been started.

Also better instructions for how to start and link pages have been provided.

Keep up the good work "Fanatiks".

Kirby

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Subject: Spearfish lake Tales Wiki


Author:
Kirby Lambert
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Date Posted: 22:35:38 05/10/09 Sun
Attention all Spearfish Lake Tales fanatics.

The new information wiki for fans of Wes Boyd’s Spearfish Lake Tales is now open.

Please remember that what is currently on the site is still a work in progress.
There are several basics of the design that we have not finished (i.e.: logos, book covers, file up-load links just to name a few). Hopefully with everyone’s input it will grow into a useful tool.

If you will study what has been done and read the style sheet and the users guide you should be able to get started. If you need to see edit samples for clarification click the edit link at the top of an existing page and study how that formatting was done. The formatting is similar to html tagging or to go back a ways to formatting Word Perfect in DOS.

You could also enter the text in any text edit program, format there and then upload. Please always remember to check your formatting with the preview button before you save.

If you are unsure about posting to the wiki, go ahead and upload your text into the edit box for the appropriate page. At the top of the page enter an email address along with a request for help with formatting. As soon as one of the team has time we will format a part of your entry, at least enough to show you how, and then notify you via email. You can then study how the formatting was done and then work up the rest of your entry. If you are uncomfortable with posting your email address on the page come back to this forum and start a new topic requesting help. Since most of us have a life beyond Spearfish Lake (darn it) it may take a bit for one of us to get back to you. Please title entries “Wiki Formatting Help”.

Since we do not have email links up to the administrators please use this forum as a way to share info and to ask questions. Please title all entries for this purpose “Wiki Help!”.

Remember this wiki will only be as good and informative as we the users make it. Keep in mind that while we may build the wiki “Spearfish Lake” and all it encompasses is and always will be the creation of Wes Boyd and it all ultimately belongs to him.

The address is http://www.spearfishlaketaleswiki.com.

Dive in and have fun!

Mike Slade, Kirby Lambert & The Editorial Team.

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Subject: SLT Wiki Page instructions


Author:
Kirby Lambert
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Date Posted: 23:27:40 05/11/09 Mon
I have posted on the "Shared Documents from Users" page of the wiki a .pdf file that give a step by step set of instructions for creating a new character page and linking it to the rest of the site. Instructions for down loading the .pdf are on the page.

I hope this helps.

Kirby

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Subject: Reported Trojan Horse


Author:
Hal
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Date Posted: 15:39:12 05/02/09 Sat
I started to read Snow Plow Extra again. I am using avast! anti-virus and when I tried to open chapter 3 it is reporting this file as a

Trojan Horse: http://addtracker.info/index.php\{gzip
malware name: JS:ScriptIP-inf [Trj]

This is way beyond my sphere of competence so I don't have a clue, [except I just remembered I have the zip file on my hard drive - maybe I get to read it after all]!

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